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Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen |
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I'll like to thank you for your support, love |
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Not only to me, but to the whole hip-hop industry itself |
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We as a whole, we've been weathering in the |
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Storm From the start, 30-plus years ago to now |
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But uh, like all weapons of hate, we perceiver |
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So allow me to speak not only for me |
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But on behalf of the hip-hop coalition |
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Every hood, every ghetto across the |
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United States of |
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America [Verse 1: AZ] |
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Yea, as a youngin' |
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I was sittin'- spittin' sponge-in' |
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Just learnin' the life, and |
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Christ second comin' |
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Well mannered and nice, got advice from women |
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But when the money get tight, the stomach start grumblin' |
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It was some of then, wasn't all |
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Hammers then |
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Went in the |
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Benz, it was kingpin and bubblin' |
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We started huddlin', puttin' in, and jugglin' |
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A shear later we straight, no more strugglin' |
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But that was only the start |
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The love between homey started fallin' apart |
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I guess anything's addictive when it's callin' your heart |
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Death and incarceration had us all in the dark |
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We was done, some'll say "we had a beautiful run" |
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And the beauty is skin deep was beneath the slums |
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I was numb, that was like speakin' in tongues |
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So relax, |
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I adapt within a week |
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I was sprung |
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Spoke facts on the track, it's like squeezin' a gun |
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No more crack, all the boys on my back hearin' "RUN" |
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Yea, I changed & came, all them years, on the stairs |
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G Rap & Kane |
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I felt pain, them beamers still lurkin' my brain |
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But the ways is the most high is to preserve to explain |
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It was the fame, that focused me, perfected my game |
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And like that, there's so many others that this rap will remain |
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And in exchange, we give fans the force of the reign |
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To feed, nurture, and breed, and be the voice of the slain |
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It's a shame, but that real shit come wit the life |
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And in order to obtain you gotta sacrifice |
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It's like cuttin' your bitch shorter, don't pass on fights |
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I'ma tourer, so you know all my facts is right |
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Plus my Aurora is like used spoilers on the porch at night |
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So be polite, just go for them critics that write |
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This is Rap, we from the hood, just tryin' to get a slice |
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Some'll bite, but the most just coast wit ice |
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And rock a little chain, get a little brain [Immediately changes to AZ talking] |
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Ha ha-ha ha, yea, hey, it is what it is |
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You know Rap has no rules |
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See my enlightener he-he once told me once said "If there is no devilish-men, then there won't be Godliness" "One can't exist without the other" |
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Knaw'mean?, it's like a |
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Doctor is only needed to heal |
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And he caters to the sick, so the sick must exist, ya heard? |
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A Minister - he only gives sermon to - uh you know - |
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Those seeking for forgiveness - so them sinners must exist |
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You know? it's simple simplistic, ha ha-ha ha |
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It's AZ the |
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GOD - Constantine - |
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Quiet Money for life |
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This is What |
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I Do, I'm here |
